Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!"
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"Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls,And the crowd beholds instead,Like a portent in the sky,Iskander's banner fly,The Black Eagle with double head;And a shout ascends on high,For men's souls are tired of the Turks,And their wicked ways and works,That have made of Ak-Hissar A city of the plague;And the loud, exultant cry That echoes wide and far Is: "Long live Scanderbeg!"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Think of your woods and orchards without birds!Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,But never will be sung to us again,Is they remembrance. Now the hour of rest Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"And in despair I bowed my head;"There is no peace on earth," I said;"For hate is strong,And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep!The Wrong shall fail,the Right prevail,With peace on earth, good-will to men!"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"As Unto the bow the the cord is ,So unto the man is woman;Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him , yet she follows:Useless each without the other."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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